Monthly Archives: December 2024

Formal Development The preceding discussion outlined the ideas leading to the differential extension of propositional logic.  The next task is to lay out the concepts and terminology needed to describe various orders of differential propositional calculi. Elementary Notions Logical description … Continue reading →

Cactus Calculus Table 6 outlines a syntax for propositional calculus based on two types of logical connectives, both of variable -ary scope. A bracketed sequence of propositional expressions is taken to mean exactly one of the propositions is false, in … Continue reading →

Casual Introduction (concl.) Table 5 exhibits the rules of inference responsible for giving the differential proposition its meaning in practice. If the feature is interpreted as applying to an object in the universe of discourse then the differential feature may … Continue reading →

Casual Introduction (cont.) In Figure 3 we saw how the basis of description for the universe of discourse could be extended to a set of two qualities while the corresponding terms of description could be extended to an alphabet of … Continue reading →

Casual Introduction (cont.) Figure 3 returns to the situation in Figure 1, but this time interpolates a new quality specifically tailored to account for the relation between Figure 1 and Figure 2. The new quality, is marked as a differential quality on account of … Continue reading →